246 MARINE 3IA3IMALS OF THE NORTH-WESTERN COAST. 



globe ; while others have been sold into the merchant service, or broken up at 

 home. San Francisco Bay and Sacramento River were the last ports many of the 

 old ships made. The Charleston Bar swallowed up the stone fleet, which was 

 chiefly made up of old whalers ; and the cruisers, during the Rebellion, destroyed 

 many valuable vessels while at sea ; and, last of all, the ice of the Arctic made a 

 fell swoop upon the northern fleet, in the fall of 1871. 



